Solid endocrine and exocrine pancreatic tumors

By far, the commonest solid tumor of the pancreas is ductal adenocarcinoma. As early detection is difficult, the main role of radiology is staging and follow-up in order to access resecability and to evaluate response to treatment, which proved important according to recent improvement and perspectives of general chemotherapy. Contributions of CT and endosonography are most helpful and complementary in order to select curative surgery or palliation. However, characterization of solid tumors might be challenging. In this presentation, several tricks will be presented in order to raise the possibility of endocrine…